"Frankly, I think the government blew it. It's our government's job to protect all of us and also protect our freedoms and protect the economy and companies, and I think they did a bad job of balancing those things," Zuckerberg said at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

"They blew it on communicating the balance of what they were going for."

Zuckerberg also revealed that Facebook has joined the growing list of tech companies lobbying the government for the right to publish specific details of the data requests it has received.